One of our regular Open Christmas guests, Mireille Herveic, who was also known as Muriel Grix has died in hospital at the age of 91.
Her last appearance at Open Christmas was December 2004 and when I took her home in the afternoon, she told me about her life and showed me some of her collection of memorabilia.
She was a heroine of the French Resistance who helped hundreds escape from the Nazis during World War Two. She risked her life to escort men across mine fields to waiting boats and helped others with safe routes to the Pyrenees. Her most daring documented exploit was to lead seven Canadian airmen from Paris to the coast of Brittany dressed as German peasants.
Several of the men who she helped during WW2 kept in touch with her and she visited some of them in Canada.
Trained as a nurse, she also had taken part in missionary work in the Congo, Calcutta and the Ukraine prior to marrying Albert Grix, a farmworker from Aylsham in 1958. She then worked at the Whitlingham Hospital.
More at Franco-American News & Events, 4: A heroine of Resistance dies
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